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The Korean War - An Epic Conflict 1950-1953 by Max Hastings
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military
The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' - Guardian 'Excellent, readable history by a master of the genre' - Daily Mail ______________On 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of ...Show more
War - How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a milita ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: near fine
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Brie ...Show more
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels Who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
$32.99 NZD
Category: Military
A story of unsung bravery at a defining moment in Britain's history'A fascinating, beautifully written story I had never heard before' Hugh GrantWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told. In the early 1930s, a gr ...Show more
The Greatest Beer Run Ever - A Crazy Adventure in a Crazy War by John Donohue
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An incredible true story of how, in 1967 - having seen students protesting against the Vietnam war - Chickie Donohue and his New York City bar friends decided that someone should go to Vietnam and take their soldier pals a beer and show them that SOMEONE appreciates what they're doing out there. It wou ...Show more
SAS Band of Brothers by Damien Lewis
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military
The new SAS epic from bestselling military historian Damien Lewis We share the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite soldier trailblazers as they commit daring raids behind enemy lines in 1944, manage an against the odds escape to victory, and then seek post-war retribution for the terrible murder ...Show more
The History of the SAS as told by the Men on the Ground by Chris Ryan
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: near fine
'Drawing on the stories of the soldiers who were there, this dramatic history of the SAS is full of bravado. Forged to fight guerrillas in the sweltering jungles of Malaya... Ryan writes with the authority of a man familiar with every nuance of the regiment's tactics, training, weapons and equipment.' - ...Show more
Eleven Bats: A Story of Combat, Cricket and the SAS by Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
$39.99 NZD
Category: Military
Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt spent more than twenty years in the SAS. His decades of service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the regiment's most experienced and recognised figures. Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cr ...Show more
The Outpost: (FTI) by Jake Tapper
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic. 'A mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice' Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild At 5:58 ...Show more
The Devil's Own War: The First World War Diary of Brigadier-General Herbert Hart by John Crawford
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: Very Good
As a first-hand account of life in the firestorm of World War One, The Devil's Own War is hard to beat.
Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day by Captain Tom Moore
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biography
At the height of the pandemic, ninety-nine-year-old WWII veteran Captain Tom Moore began walking laps of his garden to raise e1000 for the NHS. By the time of his 100th birthday, he'd reached e32 million and captured the hearts of the nation. In his official autobiography, announced alongside the creati ...Show more